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Example:
$ youtube-dl -v http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:228065
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:228065']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.11.06
[debug] Python version 3.4.2 - Linux-3.16.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-8.9
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.5-1, ffprobe 3.2.5-1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] mgid:cms:item:comedycentral: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] mgid:cms:item:comedycentral: Downloading webpage
WARNING: URL could be a direct video link, returning it as such.
[debug] Default format spec: bestvideo+bestaudio/best
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:228065'
[download] Destination: mgid -cms -item -comedycentral-mgid -cms -item -comedycentral.unknown_video
[download] 100% of 910.40KiB in 00:00
$ ls -all
total 1032
drwxr-xr-x 2 ant ant 4096 Nov 11 10:25 .
drwx------ 9 ant ant 114688 Nov 11 10:20 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 ant ant 932251 Aug 16 2013 mgid -cms -item -comedycentral-mgid -cms -item -comedycentral.unknown_video
$ file mgid\ -cms\ -item\ -comedycentral-mgid\ -cms\ -item\ -comedycentral.unknown_video
mgid -cms -item -comedycentral-mgid -cms -item -comedycentral.unknown_video: Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 11
This was embeded in https://videosift.com/video/Colbert-Welcomes-Obama-to-the-Real-World and I used SeaMonkey's media info URL for this video.
Thank you in advance. :)